Manufacture and hanging of wall-paper.



Patented 0st. #0, l899,

G. W. USBURN. MANUFACTURE AND HANGING 0F WALL PAPER.

(Application filed Feb. I, 1899.

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UNIT D STATES PATENT Orricn.

GEORGE WILLIAM OSBORN, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

MANUFACTURE'AND HANGING OF WALL-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,625, dated October 10, 1899. Application filed February 11 1899- Serial No. 704,089. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE WILLIAM Os- BORN, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Fulham, London, England, have invented Improvements in the Manufacture and Hanging of Wall-Papers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to enable wallpapers to be hung without its being necessary to subject their edges to preliminary trimming for removal of the unprinted margin that is usually left in consequence of the surface on which the pattern is so printed that its edge may register with that of another piece or part of the piece, being of less width than the paper itself, thus necessitating preliminary removal of the unprinted margin by cutting or otherwise, as well understood.

Now according to my invention instead of making thecylinders, rollers, or equivalent for printing from (hereinafter called the printing-rollers in suchwise that if the one edge of the pattern produced by one printingroller or set of printing-rollers be placed next to the opposite edge of the pattern produced by the same or another like printing-roller or set of printing-rollers the pattern will register I produce along the one edge portion of the pattern-surface of the printing-roller or set of printing-rollers-that is, at one end or the roller or of each roller-an additional portion of pattern that constitutes a repetition of a portion of the pattern produced by the opposite edge portion or end of the printingroller or set of printing-rollers, and instead of printing the paper with a plain margin along both its longitudinal edges I so print it,

that at the one side the pattern extends quite to the edge of the paper, and I so hang such paper that a narrow portion of that side at which the pattern ext-ends quite to the edge is made to overlap a corresponding portion of the pattern at the opposite side or edge of the juxtaposed piece of paper. I sometimes, in paper printed according to myinvention, entirely omit the unprinted inargin-that is, I print over the whole surface of the paper-= and in such cases it may often be found conveuient to use paper made proportionately narrower. In this way I am enabled to insure correct register and to save the loss of I time and labor incidental to the trimming of the edge by cutting or otherwise,'as heretofore usual in paper-hanging.

The invention can be applied to surface-- printing rollers or to engraved-copper-printing rollers.

The accompanying drawing illustrates two juxtaposed pieces of wall-paper, the pattern of which is produced by printing it may be by rollers of the kind above referred to.

The paper is printed so that the pattern extends from the edgel of the paper across the same and slightly beyond the line 2, but so as to leave a narrow plain marginal strip 5*, the surplus strip 3 of the pattern beyond the line 2 forming a repetition of the portion 4* of the pattern at the edge 1, or the plain marginal strip 5 may be omitted, the surplus strip 3 of pattern extending to the corresponding edge of the sheet of paper, which may be made correspondingly narrower, as shown at the right-hand side of the drawing. In this way the surplus strip 3 of pattern on each piece of paper will correspond to the portion 4 of the pattern at the adjacent side of the second or right-hand piece of paper, so that when this piece is superposed with its edge 1 corresponding to the line 2 of the first or left-hand piece the underneath strip 3 insures correct register of the pattern on the adjacent pieces of paper.

What I claim is l. The hereinabove described improved article of manufacture wherein the patternsurface thereon is provided along one edge thereof with an additional surplus portion or strip of pattern that constitutes a repetition of a portion of the pattern at its opposite edge, substantially as described.

'2. The hereinabove described improved article of manufacture wherein the pattern is extended quite to one edge of each piece without leaving the usual plain margin, and the pattern-surface at its other edge is provided with an additional or surplus portion or strip of pattern that constitutes a repetition of a portion of the pattern at its opposite edge, substantially as described.

3. As a new article of manufacture, wall- 100 paper having the pattern thereon extending l Signed at 77 Cornhill, in the city of London, from one edge thereof and provided at the England, this 16th day of January, 1899.

other side with an additional or surplus strip 1 I of pattern that constitutes a-repetition of a GEORGE VILLIAM OSBORN' 5 portion of the pattern at the oppositeedge, Witnesses:

and a plain marginal strip, substantially as EDMUND S. SNEWIN, described for the purposes specified. PERCY E. MATTOCKS. 

